It was a fraught morning. I managed to wake up and get moving though my friend who said she would be up early to wake me didn't get up until later than usual and was holding me up in leaving and not seeming to understand that I needed to get to where I was meeting my other friend on time, I managed to flee the house, late after a quick wash, hurried to where I said I would meet my friend, took a wrong turn due to not knowing the town well enough, got lost, text messaging was barely working but my friend who I was trying to meet came to find me, tearing her hair out because she had to get on the road to this other town as soon as possible as she had to be at a funeral.

I was absolutely upset at holding her up, but it worked out ok, we got there, we even had time for a coffee on the way. She is now at the funeral while I am in McD's in this big town, we meet back up at three and head for the town where my brother and sister are.

There is snow still lying all the way from our town to here and it is cold with wall to wall steel grey cloud. Winter.